Abstract: An example relates to survey analysis, survey panel members analysis, accuracy metrics, reliability analysis, and statistical analysis, to come up with confidence levels, and get an overall reliability of survey panel members, based on a score and percentile, and give incentives to the panel members, based on their reliability scores, to encourage them to be more reliable and truthful in the surveys, including their background and their demographics, increasing the values of the survey results drastically. In addition, this covers many separate embodiments: methods for improving and “incentivizing” truthful behavior in consumer panels; using Trustscore to measure and reward consistency and truthfulness; tag surveys to segment panels; and Doublecheck'd as a tool, to utilize the best responses through asking panel members twice (or more) with the same survey, and only including results from the members who answer the same both (or more) times.

Abstract: “Buy This for Me” (BTFM) is a business model, where shoppers/users can go shopping on-line, and upon checkout, seek the assistance of a friend (typically, someone they know, and whose email address or other contact information they know, such as physical address, SMS/cell, etc.), for the purpose of paying for all or some of the payment for some or all of the items in their shopping cart(s), from one or more stores, under the management of another entity (called OW). This encourages more gifts and more e-commerce. Different variations and methods are discussed for this purpose and model.

Abstract: In one of the examples of current application, the general business process described here requires utilization of a third party to approve an e-commerce transaction, before it can be finalized. Most typically, the third party, hereinafter called the authorizer or approver is a parent or legal guardian of the person, hereinafter called the purchaser or user, attempting the purchase transaction. The authorizer may have a number of other possible relationships to the purchaser, such as being a friend, relative of any type, such as a spouse, a trustee, a person with power of attorney, or anyone the purchaser voluntarily elects to serve in that role. The authorizer (in many cases) will be someone legally required to be involved in order to give the purchaser the ability to make a purchase or make important decisions on Internet. In other situations, the election of having an authorizer (be involved with the account, or in an ad hoc transaction) is simply at the request of the purchaser.